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Reality Bites (10th Anniversary Edition) |  | Director: Ben Stiller
Actors: Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Janeane Garofalo, Steve Zahn, Ben Stiller
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  78 reviews
Sales Rank: 6258
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 99 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD23827D
ISBN: 0783295766
UPC: 025192382727
EAN: 9780783295763
ASIN: B0001O3YV2
Theatrical Release Date: February 18, 1994
Release Date: June 8, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
AN ASPIRING FILMMAKER FOLLOWS THE PATHS OF HER FRIENDS AFTER THEY GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE IN TEXAS.
Amazon.com
Ben Stiller's directorial debut was this sporadically successful twentysomething comedy that tries too hard to codify the generational experience of its young adult characters. Winona Ryder plays a still-unformed woman struggling with career and relationship issues, Janeane Garofalo portrays her best friend, and Ethan Hawke and Stiller play the two lovers pursuing her. The story is as also about generation-X confusion over how to get by in a hand-me-down world with not much to get excited about, a world filled with a pop culture currency of bad music and poetry slams. The film's chief strength is its appealing cast, which is bolstered by appearances from David Spade, Renee Zellweger, Kevin Pollak, Jeanne Triplehorn, and Stiller's mother, Anne Meara. --Tom Keogh
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 A very well acted, good movie April 27, 2010
Gabrielle
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie is awesome. So cool, funny and entertaining and serious and yet hilarious. In the opening scene where it shows all the kids in the movie who have graduated from college talking into the camera I have to admit that at first it started me because those kids looked actually like the kids in my U.S. history class of 2009! They looked like the exact same kids I went to class with excality. Those kids could have been the kids in my class and probably were. It's like Hollywood should have come to my school and picked those people for this movie because that's exactly what my fellow classmates looked like-to a T. It's so special that way because I feel like the movie is very close to my life and that's really funny and cool too. The people in their twenties in this movie are funny and they remind me so much of my friends from that class! Isn't that something or what? It's amazing and incredious. I loved that scene at the begining, I laughed out loud when the opening credits came up to that music where Winona is giving her speech as her school's validvactiron. What a cool movie. Winona plays a young woman in Houston who is trying to find a job after college and never seems sucessful at finding just the right one-she goes on countless interviews and tries to find a job sense she has to pay rent and earns very little per week-only so much as to pay for things she really needs. She is a assiant on a weekly TV show but gets fired and miss unempolyed finally gets a job from her dad, pumping gas at a gas station. Well, at least that pays money and she can pay her friends back for all the phone bills she runs up, depressed and unhappy on the phone with her psychic. Winona's character dates a guy who is nerdy and uptight and well a boss and they enjoy moonlight evenings drinking Big Gulp. They also fall in love-for a short time until she falls truly, for real in love with her friend, a cute guy who struggles for her feeligs for her. They finally come to terms with it at the end and kiss and fall madly into each other's arms. THis movie is very well-written, well-acted and funny and real and emotional and hilarious and good. THis movie is really good and is worth seeing. I thought this is one of Winona's best roles, she fits the character perfectly and is a good serious actress. She plays her character well and it's like she can relate to what the girl's going through, like she lived through finacial problems herself and also dealt with growing up into a mature adult with an job. The other actors are funny and well-rehearsed and the cute guy in the movie is adorable, a hunk. My only regret is that the cute guy didn't punch out Ben Stiller, that would have been hilarious. I loved this movie, I laughed and I could relate to it myself a lot. Winona's awesome here, check her out. This movie reminds me also of the kids in my U.S. history class who were funny and like these kids in the movie. Scary how art inmates life!
 Movie Magic February 17, 2010
Jonathan D. Warden (Cincinnati, OH)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
My wifes favorite movie can now be watched for weeks without renting it over and over. Thanks for saving me money in the lond run.
This is my era. Long live the 90s! May 31, 2009
Amazon Amazement (West Coast)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For those of us who lived and breathed the 90s... This movie rocks! It totally captures our generation, what seems to be the long gone era of grunge... before boy bands, Britney, Paris and Bush came along to destroy humanity. Grab a popcorn and get nostalgic.
 1.5 stars out of 4 January 4, 2009
One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Bottom Line:
A depressingly formulaic and unappealing movie in which the main character must decide romantically between a suit-wearing bigshot and a soulful poet-writing ne'er do well (guess which one she chooses), Reality Bites should be of interest only to those who want to steep themselves in mid-90's nostalgia.
 Little bit of nostalgia for the Gen Xers! November 2, 2008
Gillian Coleman (Midwest)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie is a bit of history now for Gen Xer's that have moved on in life.
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